Pustularia (gastropod)

Pustularia
Two views of a shell of Pustularia cicercula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Cypraeidae
Genus:	Pustularia Swainson, 1840
Type species
Cypraea cicercula Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms [1]
Cypraea (Epona)H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 Cypraea (Pustularia)Swainson, 1840 (superseded combination) EponaAdams & Adams, 1854 Pustularia (Pustularia)Swainson, 1840 Trivia (Epona)H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 (original rank) Trivia (Pustularia)Swainson, 1840

Pustularia is a small genus of medium-sized sea snails or cowries, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Pustulariinae of the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. ^[1]

Distribution

These cowries are found along the coast of East Africa, Australia, Hawaii, the Philippines, the Red Sea and in the Indo-Pacific region in general.

Species

Species within the genus Pustularia include:

• Pustularia bistrinotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937
• Pustularia chiapponii Lorenz, 1999
• Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pustularia globulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pustularia keelingensis Schilder, F.A. & M. Schilder, 1940
• Pustularia jandeprezi Poppe & Martin, 1997 (synonym : Pustularia jandeprezi)
• † Pustularia korneli Fehse & Vicián, 2021
• † Pustularia lodanensis (F. A. Schilder, 1937)
• Pustularia marerubra Lorenz, 2009
• Pustularia margarita (Dillwyn, 1817) : Pearl cowry
  • Pustularia margarita africana Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
  • Pustularia margarita tuamotensis Lorenz, F. Jr. & A. Hubert, 1993
• Pustularia mauiensis (Burgess, 1967) ^[2] Maui chick-pea cowry (endemic to Hawaii)

Species brought into synonymy

• Pustularia childreni(Gray, 1825): synonym of Ipsa childreni (Gray, 1825)
• Pustularia mariaeSchilder, 1927 accepted as Annepona mariae (Schilder, 1927) (original combination)
• Pustularia maricolaC. N. Cate, 1976 accepted as Nesiocypraea lisetae maricola(C. N. Cate, 1976) (original combination)
• † Pustularia pisiformisF. A. Schilder, 1932 accepted as † Ficadusta pisiformis (F. A. Schilder, 1932) (original combination)
• † Pustularia rugiferaSchilder, 1927 accepted as † Maestratia rugifera (Schilder, 1927) (original combination)
• Pustularia tricornis(Jousseaume, 1874) accepted as Pustularia cicercula tricornis(Jousseaume, 1874)
• Pustularia tuamotensisLorenz & Huber, 1993: synonym of Pustularia margarita var. tuamotensisLorenz & Huber, 1993 accepted as Pustularia margarita(Dillwyn, 1817)
• Pustularia wattsiLorenz, 2000 accepted as Pustularia mauiensis wattsiLorenz, 2000

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pustularia Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205618 on 2022-03-11
2. Burgess, C. M. (1967). "A new Hawaiian Cypraea". Hawaiian Shell News. 15 (10): 1, 2.

• Lorenz F. (2014). Monograph of the genus Pustularia (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Harxheim: ConchBooks. 130 pp
• Lorenz, F. (2017). Cowries. A guide to the gastropod family Cypraeidae. Volume 1, Biology and systematics. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 644 pp.

External links

• Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
• E.L. Heiman (2008). "Reflections upon Pustularia mauiensis and related taxa" (PDF). Triton. 17: 29–31.
• E.L. Heiman (2008). "Pustularia chiapponii seems to be a form of P. bistrinotata" (PDF). Triton. 17: 33–35.
• Ladd, H.S. (1977). Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eratoidae through Harpidae). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 533: i–iv, 1–84, pls 1–23 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
• OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan database
• ZipcodeZoo